September 2008 Archives
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This morning I logged into one of the Cozy Games bingo sites that launched only a little while ago and found that since the last time I logged in they have blocked chat to unfunded bingo players. This is something that is uniform to all sites on this platform bar one. This led to a discussion with a fellow bingo writer about bingo chat and the conclusion drawn was that bingo chat is an integral part of online bingo.
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Laying in bed last night watching TV I saw for the first time the Ladbrokes Bingo new advert and I wasn't overly impressed. The whole thing had the whole wobbly cam feel to it; you know the thing I mean when someone is videoing something and moving at the same time, makes you feel quite queasy.
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Having just read the article from "The Boss" about bingo software I was shocked to see that he missed one from his list. The Parlay Entertainment bingo software is one used by all the St Minver sites as well as a few more besides and it has gone few quite a few versions as it has grown with the bingo industry. If I'm not mistaken Version 5 of the Parlay Entertainment bingo software is due for release very shortly.
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Felt as there are a lot of additional software companies offering bingo these days we should do a quick run down of the major players. We have not gone for any particular order and I am sure Betty will offer up her view of the relative merits of each platform in a subsequent review.
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Well it's that time of week again; the time I'm beginning to dread each week because it seems "the boss" is whooping some Betty bottom when it comes to the online bingo top ten. The first week he beat me and then to add insult to injury the second week he beat me by a bigger margin; do I really want to take a look at the stats for the online bingo top ten this week? Sure I do, I can take it on the chin so to speak although this week I'm going to try scoring a little differently simply because it might work out in my favour!
Continue reading Online Bingo Top Ten week 3.
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Another online bingo site that I haven't heard of before came to my attention today; this time it's the turn of 321 Bingo, a site whose name makes me think of Dusty Bin and Ted Rogers. Am I showing my age now? Surely I'm not the only one who remembers 321 and the special finger movements that more often than not, unless you are Ted Rogers, ended up as a rather rude hand gesture!
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Vernons Bingo have some special offers available at their online bingo site this week and here I'll be bringing you details of the Vernons Bingo birthday celebrations. It wasn't that long ago that I reviewed Vernons Bingo and I can't believe they have been open a year, I only heard of them back in April of this year. Registering an account at Vernons Bingo will see you gain £1 free to try the games on the Virtue Fusion software platform.
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I was reading through the Bingo Link magazine from the Bingo Association and was scouring through the list of online bingo sites listed and noticed a new name, Big8 Gaming Bingo - another one I have never heard of but was keen to bring you details of this bingo site. Big8 Gaming Bingo uses the Virtue Fusion software and like many on this platform registering can be a bit of a hassle if you have accounts at any of the other networked sites on this platform.
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I know it's not bingo related but it always amazes me when any online gambling adverts come under scrutiny by the Advertising Standards Agency (ASA) and usually because just one complaint has been made. This time it's the PKR advert banned by the ASA for being irresponsible and portraying gambling as a way to gain admiration and recognition.
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It would appear that many bingo sites are jumping on the guaranteed jackpot bandwagon and CyberBingo is the latest to do so. The CyberBingo guaranteed jackpot game is due to play on 27th September 2008 for £10,000 but where you pay £1 per ticket for a Foxy Bingo £10,000 coverall at CyberBingo you have to pay £2! The CyberBingo guaranteed jackpot game will be played in the Network VIP room at 11pm BST on 27/09/08.
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Once a week at Sky Bingo there is a promotion called the Sky Bingo Friday feeling which aims to help bingo players beat the credit crunch that we are all feeling at the moment. This Friday at Sky Bingo it's the chance to win £30 cashback on your petrol costs. The offer is made to the first 30 players during the Sky Bingo Friday feeling promotional period to score bingo in 55 numbers or less.
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Next week sees the launch of a week of free bingo at Mirror Bingo following on from the success of the free bingo games at Foxy Bingo. Free Bingo week starts on 22nd September and ends on the 29th September and every single day of that week there will be 13 free bingo games playing. The free bingo games at Mirror Bingo start at 10am daily and finish at 10pm.
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Got a night at the pub planned tonight? Well give it a miss because tonight there are prizes galore at Foxy Bingo in their prize night special. All the prizes are electrical and vary in value from £99 right up until £600 and the fun starts at 7pm in the Sunnie Day room at Foxy Bingo. There are special games running from 7pm right up until 10pm, one every twenty minutes.
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Big Heart Bingo were previously part of The Gaming Network (TGN) group of sites but a colleague informed me today that they have made a change in software providers. Big Heart Bingo have moved to the Cozy Games software platform, the platform that powers sites like Gone Bingo and Bingo Playground. Registering an account with Big Heart Bingo will see you get £10 free with no financial outlay.
Continue reading Big Heart Bingo move to Cozy.
When I first visited Blackpool Club Bingo when it launched into the world of online bingo I was really disappointed with the flash version of their game and made the choice to download their bingo software client. For many bingo players online today having to download a bingo client is not something they wish to do. Today I revisited the site and found that Blackpool Club Bingo have updated their flash game.
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With more and more online bingo sites launching television marketing campaigns it made me question the ins and outs of online bingo marketing. I'm by no means an expert on this but what other channels are open as a way to market their bingo sites. We have seen recently many newspapers and magazines launching internet bingo sites and for them they have a ready made platform for advertising but what about the smaller sites?
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Since the parting of ways of Tombola and Sun Bingo, not to mention News of the World Bingo as well, Tombola Bingo seems to be going from strength to strength. It was always going to be a battle between Tombola Bingo and Sun Bingo after the sun chose to move to GameSys and the most recent addition of cheaper games at Tombola Bingo seems to be helping.
Continue reading Cheaper games at Tombola Bingo.
Wandering around the web as I do most days I came across Totesport Bingo; this is a totally new site to me as I've never heard of it. Yes, I've heard the name Totesport but had no idea they had an UK bingo site. Totesport Bingo appears to have chosen the PlayTech software for their online bingo site but it is only the flash version, there is no download version available.
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The best online bingo site around today, Foxy Bingo has numerous rooms to choose from when you play at their site but today Wink Bingo launches more rooms in an effort to keep up with bingo giants Foxy Bingo. Previously there were only four 75 ball bingo rooms and four 90 ball bingo rooms at Wink Bingo but today saw the launch of an additional two for each game type.
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The name of this bingo site speaks volumes and with a reputation to live up to Ann Summers Bingo doesn't fail to deliver promotions that are expected of the Ann Summers name. Take for instance the welcome gift from Ann Summers Bingo when you make your first deposit; a naughty games book which will "spice up any winters evening" according to Ann Summers Bingo.
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Remember Christopher Biggins the winner of I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here and from our youth better known as Adam Painting from Rent a Ghost? Well he released a record yesterday called Biggins Bingo Wings! Can you believe that? The song itself is said to have been released to promote the idea that "big is best". How long before we see Biggins Bingo as a UK bingo site?
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With so many online bingo sites to choose from around the world wide web today; over 243 at the last count, how do you know which is the best and most trustworthy to play at? Choosing an online bingo site is a minefield and it is easy to get sucked in by the free money offers and the huge cash match bonuses being offered by many bingo sites online today.
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After last weeks white wash by "The Boss" I am a little nervous about how well I will do this week in the online bingo top ten. I was really disappointed in last week's results and have everything crossed that I am going to do better this week. I do have my suspicions on the validity of the analytics used to score this competition, maybe "The Boss" cooks the books a little to always come out on top after all he is very competitive.
Continue reading Online Bingo Top Ten Week 2.
As well as the £10 free at 32red Bingo there are many other bingo promotions available at this Microgaming online bingo site. The 32red bingo promotions don't end with the free welcome bonus offered to all new players; you can take advantage of lots of other special offers at 32red Bingo.
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I love Paddy Power Bingo as the whole site had a very individual feel about it. I know I can head over there and find something to do, not just the usual software with the same promotion I have seen a dozen times before. Paddy Power Bingo has a superb array of games spread across all of the Paddy Power branded sites.
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Isn't it weird how all the magazines are launching online bingo sites and most of them are choosing to use the JackpotJoy platform. One of the many to join the bandwagon is Pick Me Up Bingo and the only difference between all the other sites and even JackpotJoy itself is the front page. There is nothing different about Pick Me Up Bingo to any of the others on the JackpotJoy skin.
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After Sun Bingo made the decision to part ways with Tombola I was always sure that this would prove to be bingo industry suicide. However maybe I need to eat my words because the new Sun Bingo seems to be proving quite popular. This however is definitely not because of the new games like Whack a Moley at Sun Bingo. Playing the game is a little addictive but it's more frustrating then anything else.
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PlatinumPlay Bingo is one of the online bingo sites powered by Microgaming and a one of its latest promotions is the PlatinumPlay Bingo ball for life game. This promotion sees all bingo players having the opportunity to choose a number that will become their Bingo Ball for Life and offers them the chance to win some big cash prizes.
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Another look at You Tube bought me to a Purely Bingo online advert and this one is a bit of a doozy. It's all of ten seconds long and has no "cheesy songs" nor any "gimmicks" it's just Purely Bingo. For me though I like the cheesy songs, I like the gimmicks and the Purely Bingo advert, although informative, lacks what any advert needs. The Purely Bingo advert lacks umph - it needs the cheesy songs or the gimmicks to make it worth watching.
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After covering Agony Ant at Bingo Night Live recently I was interested to read about the bingo agony aunt at 888ladies. There is a whole page at 888ladies dedicated to details of the newest gimmick to hit the 888ladies pages. Not only is there a whole page dedicated to the bingo agony aunt at 888ladies, namely Chica, but she has 5 dedicated chat room slots in which to you as an online bingo player can earn points for divulging all your secrets and dragging your skeletons kicking and screaming from the closet.
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The face fronting Cheggers Bingo is none other than the man himself, Keith Chegwin and the Cheggers Bingo promotion sees all bingo players at this site in with a chance of having £500 personally delivered to their door by the man himself. Keith Chegwin reminds me very much of my younger days; many a Saturday morning watching Swap Shop or Cheggers Plays Pop during the week.
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Having a little nose around You Tube for some funny stuff to show our readers I came across an ad for an online bingo site called BuckyBingo. BuckyBingo is a totally new name on me in the world of online bingo so of course I had to check it out. My first thought was that BuckyBingo was a new name for Buckingham Bingo and this may well be the case.
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How naff is this newest addition to advertising online bingo on our television screens? The advert for Coffee Break Bingo from Mail Bingo is probably the worst I have seen to date. Naff graphics and settings with an even naffer voiceover makes this probably the worse advert for online bingo EVER!
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I always find it really interesting to look at the geeky behind the scenes stuff for onlinebingo.net and one of those things is the most popular articles here. It could be an ego thing but hey, who doesn't like to have their ego massaged occasionally. I thought the readers might like a top of the pops style run down on a weekly basis of the most popular pages here at onlinebingo.net. So each week I will be posting an Online Bingo Top Ten so you can see the movers and shakers here at onlinebingo.net.
Continue reading Online Bingo Top Ten Week 1.
Is it me or is there something strange about a Bingo TV advert talking about a better class of bingo? It is a strange strategy to base your TV creative on the Joanna Lumley advert for car insurance "You don't have to be posh to be priveleged". TheDailyMailBingo Tv advert which seems to be also promoting Coffeebreakbingo is confused about its target audience.
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RedBingo would be a far better name for the new bingo site 32 Red Bingo which is currently advertised on UK TV. Why ? well because its more of an attractive name for a start and more importantly it has no Roulette connotations as the name 32Red applies to a UK casino brand founded by some ex Ladbrokes people.
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Anthony Crank, presenter of Bingo Night Live has taken to being an agony aunt for the most amusing problems that had been sent in to the Bingo Night Live advice line. According to a clip available to view on the Bingo Night Live home page at ITV the presenters asked viewers to send in their most amusing problems.
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The Wink Bingo welcome bonus for new players has been up and down like a trollop's draws over the last couple of months. It was only last month that the Wink Bingo welcome bonus was dropped from £15 down to £5; less that a month on and it's been bumped back up to £15. Talk about keep people busy in the industry!
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Recently there have been some upgrades to the Virtue Fusion bingo software and part of the changes include the inclusion of 75 ball bingo variations at the online bingo sites using this software platform. To date there are three 75 ball bingo variations available online. The original 75 ball bingo game is the sort played at sites like Foxy Bingo; this 75 ball bingo variation is called the pattern game.
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Yet another online bingo site has joined the growing numbers of bingo buisnesses to take to our television screens; this time its the turn of bet365 Bingo. As always for me it has to live up to the great Foxmeister and the Foxy Bingo television marketing campaign so how does the bet365 Bingo TV advert compare to that of Foxy Bingo? Does the bet365 Bingo have a funky character or even funkier music than Foxy Bingo or is it just another voiceover campaign to hit our screens?
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Although this ruling was bought in July 2007 I thought it was an interesting read and wanted to share it with you after the recent spate on UK bingo sites being complained about to the Advertising Standards Agency (ASA). The Bingos.co.uk banner ad appeared on the NTL homepage.
Continue reading Bingos.co.uk banner ad ruling by ASA.
Party Bingo offer a loyalty programme at their online bingo site and the system is all centred on what are called Party Points. Party Bingo have a very concise, if not very tedious, guide to earning Party Points at their online bingo site and there is a lot to read about them. There are three types of points that you can earn at Party Bingo and in this article I will take you through the system briefly.
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One thing I really enjoy reading when I get some time is the testimonials at any online bingo site and after visiting the home page of Bingo Café I noticed they had a section dedicated to promoting what their online bingo players think of Bingo Café. Testimonials at any online bingo site are only ever going to be the good stuff about the site after all they wouldn't dedicate a section to complaints but it still a great way to find out the good points of any online bingo site.
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As we have been seeing over the last week or so many online bingo sites that are powered by the Virtue Fusion software have seen many changes and William Hill Bingo is another one of the camp to add more rooms to their online bingo site. The new additions include two variations of the 75 ball bingo game, 80 ball bingo and Jackpot Joker.
Continue reading William Hill Bingo changes.
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You may have noticed that a few of the Virtue Fusion online bingo web sites have recently upgraded their bingo software and part of the upgrade is the inclusion of 75 ball bingo. Crown Bingo use the Virtue Fusion software for their internet bingo site and this means that Crown Bingo have 75 ball bingo on their UK bingo site too but it isn't your usually once chance to win 75 ball bingo
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An online bingo site that plays on the LeapFrog Gaming platform has a player that is smiling more than ever after playing at Bingo Cabin - player "notasausage" is a regular player at Bingo Cabin and recently had an issue with the site which was resolved quickly and amicably by management of Bingo Cabin. Having spent the time talking to this wonderful lady over the last couple of days it is great to be able to write about an online bingo site that has truly looked after their bingo players.
Continue reading Bingo Cabin comes up trumps.
It's back to the weird and wonderful in the world of eBay bingo for me as I haven't searched it for a while on the world's most famous auction site. It really does tickle me every time I take a look through the offerings on eBay for all things bingo.
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In my email inbox today was an email from BBN; for those of you don't know this is the Best Bingo Network behind sites like Gone Bingo and WOW Bingo. The email was offering me $6 free but what interested me more about this email was at the bottom it was advertising Taj Bingo. Of course Taj Bingo is not an online bingo site that I have ever heard of.
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There was an article in the Sunday Telegraph recently with a title "Online bingo is a mecca for the middle classes" and I for one found it quite a strange title; online bingo isn't restricted to defined classes but a game that all classes can participate in surely? Although having said that in my time as an online bingo player I've yet to meet someone in a bingo chat room from the upper class.
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According to an article I was reading today the 36% growth in income at 888 comes from the introduction of their online bingo site 888Ladies Bingo. The article I was reading was from the Online Casino Advisory and in it states that gambling of is a "predominantly male" hobby. Not from where I'm sitting and I am female; although the article does go on to say that there is "still a sizeable female portion" in the gaming market.
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I know it's not bingo but I love a good old game of Monopoly especially when I'm the banker; what I didn't know is that there is a UK Monopoly Championships at which you can win a trip to Las Vegas. If this sounds right up your street then it's not too late to register and entry is open to players from the age of 8! There are four venues for the UK Monopoly Championships; Bournemouth, Birmingham, Skegness and Blackpool.
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